Tag: Self Development
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The Most Important Relationship You’ll Ever Have
What kind of relationship do you have with yourself? Do you have high, unattainable expectations for what you can achieve? Do you criticize yourself for how you look, the choices you’ve made, or the goals you haven’t attained? Do you put yourself last? Do you ignore your own needs until you have a physical (illness),…
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What If In Order to Come Together, We First Have to Fall Apart?
Imagine at birth, you were given all of the pieces of a puzzle that you needed to become the best version of you. Imagine then throughout your life, that you learned to hide some of the pieces because you didn’t think they would help you fit in. Perhaps you took pieces from others that you believed would help…
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Are You the Good Girl or the Rebel?
If you had asked me several years ago if I identified more with the good girl or the rebel, I likely would have said the good girl, hands down (with a few exceptions). My need to “be the good girl” came from 1) a deep desire to avoid conflict at all costs (because it made…
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Are You Ready to Live the Life You Want?
Have you ever stopped in the middle of what you were doing, looked around and thought to yourself, “There has to got to be more to life than this!” If so, you’re not alone! We’ve all been there. We pick our heads up for a second and realize that we aren’t where we thought we…
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“Heaven Let Your Light Shine” Through
A well-used, worn piece of cracked pottery is still beautiful when the light is allowed to filter through its cracks and chips. Imagine an ancient water jug that has cracks and chips, where the paint has faded and the shine has worn away from over-use. When we look at it, we can appreciate how it…
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Are You a People Pleaser?
For most of my life, I have been the easy going one, the agreeable one, the pleasant one, the one who didn’t make waves, cause conflict or drama. I never tried to take up more space than I occupied (unless I was on stage) and I would often avoid conflict and confrontation because it made…
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Is It Resiliency or Courage?
True resiliency occurs when we fully recover from a disruptive experience – heal from the trauma, feel and process the emotions, learn the lessons we were meant to learn, and then release it so that it no longer triggers us. There is a subtle nuance to the words we use. Sometimes we confuse courage and…
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Quit Complaining and Start Manifesting!
Ever listen to someone complain and find yourself chiming in with all your complaints?? It’s easy to do. Misery loves company. Friendships and relationships have been borne out of the bedrock of commiseration. How do we break the cycle? How do we re-define those relationships? Set the boundaries so that we stop complaining and focusing…
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Love Is All We Need…..
Earlier this year, I was a guest on the Mystic Nerd Squad podcast (take a listen HERE) and while we jumped around a bit from topic to topic, I think and I hope, that the overall message was that LOVE is key to reconnecting to our Joy. Now, some of you may be wondering – does…
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